The minor books at this time are rich in drawings by most of the artists who are our quest in this chronicle. The number, and the difficulty of ascertaining which of them contain worthy designs, must be the excuse for a very incomplete list, which includes _Keats's Poetical Works_, with a hundred and twenty designs by G. Scharf; _The Children's Hour_ (Hunter, Edinburgh), W. Small, etc.; _Jingles and Jokes for Little Folks_, Paul Gray, etc.; _The Magic Mirror_, W. S. Gilbert (Strahan); _Dame Dingle's Fairy Tales_, J. Proctor (Cassell); _Ellen Montgomery's Bookshelf_, twelve plates in colour by J. D. Watson (Nisbet); _An Old Fairy Tale_, R. Doyle (Routledge); _What the Moon saw_, eighty illustrations by A. W. Bayes (Routledge); _Ernie Elton the Lazy Boy_, _Patient Henry_, _The Boy Pilgrims_, all illustrated by A. Boyd Houghton and published by Warne; _Sybil and her Snowball_, R. Barnes (Seeley); _Stories told to a Child_, Houghton, etc. (Strahan); _Aunt Sally's Life_, G. Thomas, (Bell); _Mother's Last Words_, M. E. Edwards, etc. (Jarrold), and _Watts's Divine Songs_ (Sampson Low), with some fine Smalls and Birket Fosters. Although the style of work that prevailed in 1865-66 was so widely popular, it did not find universal approval. Critics deplored the 'sketchy' style of Dalziels' engraving and, comparing it unfavourably with Longmans' _New Testament_, moaned, 'when shall we find again such engraving as in Mulready's drawings by Thompson.' In _Don Quixote_ they owned Houghton's designs were clever, but thought, 'on the whole, the worthy knight deserved better treatment.' And so all along the line we find the then present contrasted with the golden past; even as many look back to-day to the golden 'sixties' from the commonplace 'nineties.' This time saw the beginning of the superb toy-books by Walter Crane--which are his masterpieces, and monuments to the skill and taste of Edmund Evans, their engraver and printer. For wood-block printing in colours, no western work has surpassed them even to this date. _Poems by Jean Ingelow_ (Longmans, 1867) is a very notable and scarce volume, which was published in the autumn of 1866. It contains twenty drawings by G. J. Pinwell, of which the seven to _The High Tide_ are singularly fine; but that they suffered terribly at the engraver's hands some originals, in the possession of Mr. Joseph Pennell, prove only too plainly. J. W. North is represented by twenty-four, A. Boyd Houghton by sixteen, J. Wolf by nine, E. J. Poynter by one, W. Small by four, E. Dalziel by three, and T. Dalziel by twenty. The level of this fine book is singularly high, and it must needs be placed among the very best of one of the most fruitful years.